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John Cai
e8207717f1 refs: add referent to each_ref_fn
Add a parameter to each_ref_fn so that callers to the ref APIs
that use this function as a callback can have acess to the
unresolved value of a symbolic ref.

Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-08-09 08:47:34 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
e7da938570 global: introduce USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE macro
Use of the `the_repository` variable is deprecated nowadays, and we
slowly but steadily convert the codebase to not use it anymore. Instead,
callers should be passing down the repository to work on via parameters.

It is hard though to prove that a given code unit does not use this
variable anymore. The most trivial case, merely demonstrating that there
is no direct use of `the_repository`, is already a bit of a pain during
code reviews as the reviewer needs to manually verify claims made by the
patch author. The bigger problem though is that we have many interfaces
that implicitly rely on `the_repository`.

Introduce a new `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` macro that allows code
units to opt into usage of `the_repository`. The intent of this macro is
to demonstrate that a certain code unit does not use this variable
anymore, and to keep it from new dependencies on it in future changes,
be it explicit or implicit

For now, the macro only guards `the_repository` itself as well as
`the_hash_algo`. There are many more known interfaces where we have an
implicit dependency on `the_repository`, but those are not guarded at
the current point in time. Over time though, we should start to add
guards as required (or even better, just remove them).

Define the macro as required in our code units. As expected, most of our
code still relies on the global variable. Nearly all of our builtins
rely on the variable as there is no way yet to pass `the_repository` to
their entry point. For now, declare the macro in "biultin.h" to keep the
required changes at least a little bit more contained.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-06-14 10:26:33 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
1b261c20ed config: clarify memory ownership in git_config_string()
The out parameter of `git_config_string()` is a `const char **` even
though we transfer ownership of memory to the caller. This is quite
misleading and has led to many memory leaks all over the place. Adapt
the parameter to instead be `char **`.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-05-27 11:20:00 -07:00
Patrick Steinhardt
2e5c4758b7 cocci: apply rules to rewrite callers of "refs" interfaces
Apply the rules that rewrite callers of "refs" interfaces to explicitly
pass `struct ref_store`. The resulting patch has been applied with the
`--whitespace=fix` option.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-05-07 10:06:59 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1002f28a52 Merge branch 'eb/hash-transition'
Work to support a repository that work with both SHA-1 and SHA-256
hash algorithms has started.

* eb/hash-transition: (30 commits)
  t1016-compatObjectFormat: add tests to verify the conversion between objects
  t1006: test oid compatibility with cat-file
  t1006: rename sha1 to oid
  test-lib: compute the compatibility hash so tests may use it
  builtin/ls-tree: let the oid determine the output algorithm
  object-file: handle compat objects in check_object_signature
  tree-walk: init_tree_desc take an oid to get the hash algorithm
  builtin/cat-file: let the oid determine the output algorithm
  rev-parse: add an --output-object-format parameter
  repository: implement extensions.compatObjectFormat
  object-file: update object_info_extended to reencode objects
  object-file-convert: convert commits that embed signed tags
  object-file-convert: convert commit objects when writing
  object-file-convert: don't leak when converting tag objects
  object-file-convert: convert tag objects when writing
  object-file-convert: add a function to convert trees between algorithms
  object: factor out parse_mode out of fast-import and tree-walk into in object.h
  cache: add a function to read an OID of a specific algorithm
  tag: sign both hashes
  commit: export add_header_signature to support handling signatures on tags
  ...
2024-03-28 14:13:50 -07:00
Elijah Newren
eea0e59ffb treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
Each of these were checked with
   gcc -E -I. ${SOURCE_FILE} | grep ${HEADER_FILE}
to ensure that removing the direct inclusion of the header actually
resulted in that header no longer being included at all (i.e. that
no other header pulled it in transitively).

...except for a few cases where we verified that although the header
was brought in transitively, nothing from it was directly used in
that source file.  These cases were:
  * builtin/credential-cache.c
  * builtin/pull.c
  * builtin/send-pack.c

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-12-26 12:04:31 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
efed687edc tree-walk: init_tree_desc take an oid to get the hash algorithm
To make it possible for git ls-tree to display the tree encoded
in the hash algorithm of the oid specified to git ls-tree, update
init_tree_desc to take as a parameter the oid of the tree object.

Update all callers of init_tree_desc and init_tree_desc_gently
to pass the oid of the tree object.

Use the oid of the tree object to discover the hash algorithm
of the oid and store that hash algorithm in struct tree_desc.

Use the hash algorithm in decode_tree_entry and
update_tree_entry_internal to handle reading a tree object encoded in
a hash algorithm that differs from the repositories hash algorithm.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-02 14:57:40 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
ce481ac8b3 Merge branch 'cw/compat-util-header-cleanup'
Further shuffling of declarations across header files to streamline
file dependencies.

* cw/compat-util-header-cleanup:
  git-compat-util: move alloc macros to git-compat-util.h
  treewide: remove unnecessary includes for wrapper.h
  kwset: move translation table from ctype
  sane-ctype.h: create header for sane-ctype macros
  git-compat-util: move wrapper.c funcs to its header
  git-compat-util: move strbuf.c funcs to its header
2023-07-17 11:30:42 -07:00
Calvin Wan
91c080dff5 git-compat-util: move alloc macros to git-compat-util.h
alloc_nr, ALLOC_GROW, and ALLOC_GROW_BY are commonly used macros for
dynamic array allocation. Moving these macros to git-compat-util.h with
the other alloc macros focuses alloc.[ch] to allocation for Git objects
and additionally allows us to remove inclusions to alloc.h from files
that solely used the above macros.

Signed-off-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-07-05 11:42:31 -07:00
Glen Choo
a4e7e317f8 config: add ctx arg to config_fn_t
Add a new "const struct config_context *ctx" arg to config_fn_t to hold
additional information about the config iteration operation.
config_context has a "struct key_value_info kvi" member that holds
metadata about the config source being read (e.g. what kind of config
source it is, the filename, etc). In this series, we're only interested
in .kvi, so we could have just used "struct key_value_info" as an arg,
but config_context makes it possible to add/adjust members in the future
without changing the config_fn_t signature. We could also consider other
ways of organizing the args (e.g. moving the config name and value into
config_context or key_value_info), but in my experiments, the
incremental benefit doesn't justify the added complexity (e.g. a
config_fn_t will sometimes invoke another config_fn_t but with a
different config value).

In subsequent commits, the .kvi member will replace the global "struct
config_reader" in config.c, making config iteration a global-free
operation. It requires much more work for the machinery to provide
meaningful values of .kvi, so for now, merely change the signature and
call sites, pass NULL as a placeholder value, and don't rely on the arg
in any meaningful way.

Most of the changes are performed by
contrib/coccinelle/config_fn_ctx.pending.cocci, which, for every
config_fn_t:

- Modifies the signature to accept "const struct config_context *ctx"
- Passes "ctx" to any inner config_fn_t, if needed
- Adds UNUSED attributes to "ctx", if needed

Most config_fn_t instances are easily identified by seeing if they are
called by the various config functions. Most of the remaining ones are
manually named in the .cocci patch. Manual cleanups are still needed,
but the majority of it is trivial; it's either adjusting config_fn_t
that the .cocci patch didn't catch, or adding forward declarations of
"struct config_context ctx" to make the signatures make sense.

The non-trivial changes are in cases where we are invoking a config_fn_t
outside of config machinery, and we now need to decide what value of
"ctx" to pass. These cases are:

- trace2/tr2_cfg.c:tr2_cfg_set_fl()

  This is indirectly called by git_config_set() so that the trace2
  machinery can notice the new config values and update its settings
  using the tr2 config parsing function, i.e. tr2_cfg_cb().

- builtin/checkout.c:checkout_main()

  This calls git_xmerge_config() as a shorthand for parsing a CLI arg.
  This might be worth refactoring away in the future, since
  git_xmerge_config() can call git_default_config(), which can do much
  more than just parsing.

Handle them by creating a KVI_INIT macro that initializes "struct
key_value_info" to a reasonable default, and use that to construct the
"ctx" arg.

Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-06-28 14:06:39 -07:00
Elijah Newren
d812c3b6a0 treewide: remove cache.h inclusion due to object.h changes
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Calvin Wan <calvinwan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-04-11 08:52:10 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
e7dca80692 Merge branch 'ab/remove-implicit-use-of-the-repository' into en/header-split-cache-h
* ab/remove-implicit-use-of-the-repository:
  libs: use "struct repository *" argument, not "the_repository"
  post-cocci: adjust comments for recent repo_* migration
  cocci: apply the "revision.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "rerere.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "refs.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "promisor-remote.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "packfile.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "pretty.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "object-store.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "diff.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "commit.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "commit-reach.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: apply the "cache.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
  cocci: add missing "the_repository" macros to "pending"
  cocci: sort "the_repository" rules by header
  cocci: fix incorrect & verbose "the_repository" rules
  cocci: remove dead rule from "the_repository.pending.cocci"
2023-04-04 08:25:52 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
ecb5091fd4 cocci: apply the "commit.h" part of "the_repository.pending"
Apply the part of "the_repository.pending.cocci" pertaining to
"commit.h".

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-28 07:36:45 -07:00
Elijah Newren
ec2f026961 csum-file.h: remove unnecessary inclusion of cache.h
With the change in the last commit to move several functions to
write-or-die.h, csum-file.h no longer needs to include cache.h.
However, removing that include forces several other C files, which
directly or indirectly dependend upon csum-file.h's inclusion of
cache.h, to now be more explicit about their dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21 10:56:55 -07:00
Elijah Newren
f394e093df treewide: be explicit about dependence on gettext.h
Dozens of files made use of gettext functions, without explicitly
including gettext.h.  This made it more difficult to find which files
could remove a dependence on cache.h.  Make C files explicitly include
gettext.h if they are using it.

However, while compat/fsmonitor/fsm-ipc-darwin.c should also gain an
include of gettext.h, it was left out to avoid conflicting with an
in-flight topic.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-03-21 10:56:51 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
88cc8ed8bc Merge branch 'en/header-cleanup'
Code clean-up to clarify the rule that "git-compat-util.h" must be
the first to be included.

* en/header-cleanup:
  diff.h: remove unnecessary include of object.h
  Remove unnecessary includes of builtin.h
  treewide: replace cache.h with more direct headers, where possible
  replace-object.h: move read_replace_refs declaration from cache.h to here
  object-store.h: move struct object_info from cache.h
  dir.h: refactor to no longer need to include cache.h
  object.h: stop depending on cache.h; make cache.h depend on object.h
  ident.h: move ident-related declarations out of cache.h
  pretty.h: move has_non_ascii() declaration from commit.h
  cache.h: remove dependence on hex.h; make other files include it explicitly
  hex.h: move some hex-related declarations from cache.h
  hash.h: move some oid-related declarations from cache.h
  alloc.h: move ALLOC_GROW() functions from cache.h
  treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h includes in source files
  treewide: remove unnecessary cache.h includes
  treewide: remove unnecessary git-compat-util.h includes in headers
  treewide: ensure one of the appropriate headers is sourced first
2023-03-17 14:03:09 -07:00
Elijah Newren
41771fa435 cache.h: remove dependence on hex.h; make other files include it explicitly
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-23 17:25:29 -08:00
Elijah Newren
36bf195890 alloc.h: move ALLOC_GROW() functions from cache.h
This allows us to replace includes of cache.h with includes of the much
smaller alloc.h in many places.  It does mean that we also need to add
includes of alloc.h in a number of C files.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-23 17:25:28 -08:00
Patrick Steinhardt
6eb095d787 delta-islands: fix segfault when freeing island marks
In 647982bb71 (delta-islands: free island_marks and bitmaps, 2023-02-03)
we have introduced logic to free `island_marks` in order to reduce heap
memory usage in git-pack-objects(1). This commit is causing segfaults in
the case where this Git command does not load delta islands at all, e.g.
when reading object IDs from standard input. One such crash can be hit
when using repacking multi-pack-indices with delta islands enabled.

The root cause of this bug is that we unconditionally dereference the
`island_marks` variable even in the case where it is a `NULL` pointer,
which is fixed by making it conditional. Note that we still leave the
logic in place to set the pointer to `-1` to detect use-after-free bugs
even when there are no loaded island marks at all.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-21 09:15:04 -08:00
Eric Wong
647982bb71 delta-islands: free island_marks and bitmaps
On my mirror of linux.git forkgroup with 780 islands, this saves
nearly 4G of heap memory in pack-objects.  This savings only
benefits delta island users of pack bitmaps, as the process
would otherwise be exiting anyways.

However, there's probably not many delta island users, but the
majority of delta island users would also be pack bitmaps users.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Helped-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-02-03 18:01:46 -08:00
Eric Wong
7025f54c40 delta-islands: free island-related data after use
On my use case involving 771 islands of Linux on kernel.org,
this reduces memory usage by around 25MB.  The bulk of that
comes from free_remote_islands, since free_config_regexes only
saves around 40k.

This memory is saved early in the memory-intensive pack process,
making it available for the remainder of the long process.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Co-authored-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
2022-11-18 18:30:49 -05:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
5cf88fd8b0 git-compat-util.h: use "UNUSED", not "UNUSED(var)"
As reported in [1] the "UNUSED(var)" macro introduced in
2174b8c75d (Merge branch 'jk/unused-annotation' into next,
2022-08-24) breaks coccinelle's parsing of our sources in files where
it occurs.

Let's instead partially go with the approach suggested in [2] of
making this not take an argument. As noted in [1] "coccinelle" will
ignore such tokens in argument lists that it doesn't know about, and
it's less of a surprise to syntax highlighters.

This undoes the "help us notice when a parameter marked as unused is
actually use" part of 9b24034754 (git-compat-util: add UNUSED macro,
2022-08-19), a subsequent commit will further tweak the macro to
implement a replacement for that functionality.

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220825.86ilmg4mil.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/220819.868rnk54ju.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-01 10:49:48 -07:00
Jeff King
783a86c142 config: mark unused callback parameters
The callback passed to git_config() must conform to a particular
interface. But most callbacks don't actually look at the extra "void
*data" parameter. Let's mark the unused parameters to make
-Wunused-parameter happy.

Note there's one unusual case here in get_remote_default() where we
actually ignore the "value" parameter. That's because it's only checking
whether the option is found at all, and not parsing its value.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 12:18:55 -07:00
Jeff King
63e14ee2d6 refs: mark unused each_ref_fn parameters
Functions used with for_each_ref(), etc, need to conform to the
each_ref_fn interface. But most of them don't need every parameter;
let's annotate the unused ones to quiet -Wunused-parameter.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-08-19 12:18:54 -07:00
Jeff King
fe299ec5ae oid_array: rename source file from sha1-array
We renamed the actual data structure in 910650d2f8 (Rename sha1_array to
oid_array, 2017-03-31), but the file is still called sha1-array. Besides
being slightly confusing, it makes it more annoying to grep for leftover
occurrences of "sha1" in various files, because the header is included
in so many places.

Let's complete the transition by renaming the source and header files
(and fixing up a few comment references).

I kept the "-" in the name, as that seems to be our style; cf.
fc1395f4a4 (sha1_file.c: rename to use dash in file name, 2018-04-10).
We also have oidmap.h and oidset.h without any punctuation, but those
are "struct oidmap" and "struct oidset" in the code. We _could_ make
this "oidarray" to match, but somehow it looks uglier to me because of
the length of "array" (plus it would be a very invasive patch for little
gain).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-03-30 10:59:08 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
a7db4c193d Merge branch 'jk/oidhash'
Code clean-up to remove hardcoded SHA-1 hash from many places.

* jk/oidhash:
  hashmap: convert sha1hash() to oidhash()
  hash.h: move object_id definition from cache.h
  khash: rename oid helper functions
  khash: drop sha1-specific map types
  pack-bitmap: convert khash_sha1 maps into kh_oid_map
  delta-islands: convert island_marks khash to use oids
  khash: rename kh_oid_t to kh_oid_set
  khash: drop broken oid_map typedef
  object: convert create_object() to use object_id
  object: convert internal hash_obj() to object_id
  object: convert lookup_object() to use object_id
  object: convert lookup_unknown_object() to use object_id
  pack-objects: convert locate_object_entry_hash() to object_id
  pack-objects: convert packlist_find() to use object_id
  pack-bitmap-write: convert some helpers to use object_id
  upload-pack: rename a "sha1" variable to "oid"
  describe: fix accidental oid/hash type-punning
2019-07-09 15:25:43 -07:00
Jeff King
bdbdf42f8a delta-islands: respect progress flag
The delta island code always prints "Marked %d islands", even if
progress has been suppressed with --no-progress or by sending stderr to
a non-tty.

Let's pass a progress boolean to load_delta_islands(). We already do
the same thing for the progress meter in resolve_tree_islands().

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-20 13:29:49 -07:00
Jeff King
f8e56da97d delta-islands: convert island_marks khash to use oids
All of the users of this map have an actual "struct object_id" rather
than a bare sha1. Let's use the more descriptive type (and get one step
closer to dropping khash_sha1 entirely).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-20 10:29:24 -07:00
Jeff King
d0229abd93 object: convert lookup_object() to use object_id
There are no callers left of lookup_object() that aren't just passing us
the "hash" member of a "struct object_id". Let's take the whole struct,
which gets us closer to removing all raw sha1 variables.  It also
matches the existing conversions of lookup_blob(), etc.

The conversions of callers were done by hand, but they're all mechanical
one-liners.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-06-20 10:18:09 -07:00
brian m. carlson
ea82b2a085 tree-walk: store object_id in a separate member
When parsing a tree, we read the object ID directly out of the tree
buffer. This is normally fine, but such an object ID cannot be used with
oidcpy, which copies GIT_MAX_RAWSZ bytes, because if we are using SHA-1,
there may not be that many bytes to copy.

Instead, store the object ID in a separate struct member. Since we can
no longer efficiently compute the path length, store that information as
well in struct name_entry. Ensure we only copy the object ID into the
new buffer if the path length is nonzero, as some callers will pass us
an empty path with no object ID following it, and we will not want to
read past the end of the buffer.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-15 09:57:41 -08:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
385cb64ff3 delta-islands.c: remove the_repository references
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-11-12 14:50:06 +09:00
Christian Couder
fe0ac2fb7f pack-objects: move 'layer' into 'struct packing_data'
This reduces the size of 'struct object_entry' from 88 bytes
to 80 and therefore makes packing objects more efficient.

For example on a Linux repo with 12M objects,
`git pack-objects --all` needs extra 96MB memory even if the
layer feature is not used.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-16 10:56:44 -07:00
Christian Couder
108f530385 pack-objects: move tree_depth into 'struct packing_data'
This reduces the size of 'struct object_entry' and therefore
makes packing objects more efficient.

This also renames cmp_tree_depth() into tree_depth_compare(),
as it is more modern to have the name of the compare functions
end with "compare".

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-16 10:56:44 -07:00
Jeff King
c8d521faf7 Add delta-islands.{c,h}
Hosting providers that allow users to "fork" existing
repos want those forks to share as much disk space as
possible.

Alternates are an existing solution to keep all the
objects from all the forks into a unique central repo,
but this can have some drawbacks. Especially when
packing the central repo, deltas will be created
between objects from different forks.

This can make cloning or fetching a fork much slower
and much more CPU intensive as Git might have to
compute new deltas for many objects to avoid sending
objects from a different fork.

Because the inefficiency primarily arises when an
object is deltified against another object that does
not exist in the same fork, we partition objects into
sets that appear in the same fork, and define
"delta islands". When finding delta base, we do not
allow an object outside the same island to be
considered as its base.

So "delta islands" is a way to store objects from
different forks in the same repo and packfile without
having deltas between objects from different forks.

This patch implements the delta islands mechanism in
"delta-islands.{c,h}", but does not yet make use of it.

A few new fields are added in 'struct object_entry'
in "pack-objects.h" though.

The documentation will follow in a patch that actually
uses delta islands in "builtin/pack-objects.c".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-16 10:51:17 -07:00